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Word: cled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transforming Lawrence Durrell's massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films could hardly unravel the interlocking time structure and convoluted personal relationships in the four separate but interrelated novels. Thus 20th Century-Fox might have been well-advised to follow the traditional Hollywood practice of isolating a single incident from one of the novels and blowing it up into a complete story for the screen. But fearlessly, the studio resolved to distill the essence of the entire Quartet -carefully constructed around Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ersatz Alexandria | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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